“Divided we are conquered. Together we are unstoppable!” ~ Dr. Jill Stein, Green Party Presidential Candidate, 2012, 2016, 2024
I am a member of the Green Party of Utah. I have served as Co-Chair (2003-2010; 2018-2026); Secretary, Grassroots Coordinator and National Delegate.
I am very active at the national level in these positions:
Co-Chair, Annual National Meeting Committee
Secretary, Developing Elders Caucus
Member, National Women’s Caucus
I ran on the Green Party of Utah ballot for Salt Lake County Council member in 2006.
I ran, and was elected as, Secretary for the Fairpark Community Council, a recognized entity of the Salt Lake City Government, 2017-2019 and 2019-2021.This was a non-partisan position, but recognized by the Green Party of the United States as a Green elected to office.
I have long believed in, and lived, the platform of the Green Party. I first joined the Green Party of Utah in 2001. In the mid-2000’s I served as the state co-chair of the GPUT. I ran for Salt Lake County Council At-Large in 2006 on the Green Party of Utah ticket. I was also a Delegate to the National Committee (NC) of the GPUS (representing the GPUT), served on the GPUS Green Party Peace Action Network as co-chair, and served as secretary of the Eco-Action Committee. I am presently a co-founder of Green Party Peace Action Network (GPPN). I developed, and have maintained, lasting relationships with many GPUS colleagues and friends across the country.
I truly believe that the Green Party is currently the only party with a platform that will move our world in a sustainable direction with respect to all life on the planet.
This is a modified version of a speech I gave when I was running for a state party office:
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I pledge allegiance to ALL life
in its interdependent diversity;
and to the Planet upon which it exists;
one World, under the sky, undividable
with harmony and balance for ALL.
I want to talk to you about the sunflower.
There is a project called the Fukushima Sunflower Foster Parent Project, launched in 2011 about two months after the nuclear power plant disaster. The hope was that sunflowers could be used to cleanse radiation-contaminated soil, as reported following the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear crisis. But it was determined that sunflowers actually had little effect on removing radioactive contamination, so Team Fukushima decided to focus its efforts on reviving the economy. What happened next was nothing short of miraculous, as reported in the Japan Times in 2015.
The project distributed more than 12,000 bags containing 5 grams of imported sunflower seeds to schools, businesses, groups and individuals.
Ten tons of harvested seeds were returned the following year and were then used across Fukushima to grow sunflowers, make edible oil and process used sunflower oil for fuel. As a result, people came to visit Fukushima, helping to restore the economy. The project helped to create jobs, restore businesses, and build tourism through a charter bus system that developed the use of biofuel, processed from waste sunflower oil, to power some of its route buses.
Team Fukushima represented the desires of its people to restore life from disaster through the sunflower, which is also the international symbol of nuclear disarmament and of the Green Party. As a Green Party National Delegate, I plan to represent the members of the Green Party of Utah to the national Green Party in an effort to be active in the movement to restore the interests of our people TO our people, from the disaster of our political climate today.
Since I was a small child I have loved life. I have always felt a kinship to the planet. This passion has led me down many wonderful paths as I have grown. One of those paths led me to the Green Party in 2000. Today I formally reaffirm my commitment to furthering the values of the Green Party through my active participation in the Green Party of Utah (GPUT), and through the example I strive to live each day in alignment with the Ten Key Values. My hopes and desires for the GPUT are to see it develop as a viable party in Utah to truly represent the will of the people of this state and offer REAL choices to the state’s voters of candidates who hold the interests of the people, of the environment, and of all life, ABOVE everything else!
Most of all, my heart is with our Mother who provides us the air we breathe and water we drink, and to whom I owe my existence.
Having served in various capacities within our state party, I am familiar with the role and responsibilities of offices and positions to fully represent the will of the GPUT membership on all issues, locally and nationally. I fully intend to represent the membership of the Green Party of Utah in my role(s) and to ensure that the values upon which the Green Party is built, are a priority.
In the words of Petra Kelly, founder of the German Green Party – the FIRST Green Party – and leader in the disarmament and social justice movements– “If there is a future, it will be Green.”
Well, that future has arrived, Green Party of Utah! And we ARE green and growing!
There is a project called the Fukushima Sunflower Foster Parent Project, launched in 2011 about two months after the nuclear power plant disaster. The hope was that sunflowers could be used to cleanse radiation-contaminated soil, as reported following the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear crisis. But it was determined that sunflowers actually had little effect on removing radioactive contamination, so Team Fukushima decided to focus its efforts on reviving the economy. What happened next was nothing short of miraculous, as reported in the Japan Times in 2015.
The project distributed more than 12,000 bags containing 5 grams of imported sunflower seeds to schools, businesses, groups and individuals.
There is a project called the Fukushima Sunflower Foster Parent Project, launched in 2011 about two months after the nuclear power plant disaster. The hope was that sunflowers could be used to cleanse radiation-contaminated soil, as reported following the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear crisis. But it was determined that sunflowers actually had little effect on removing radioactive contamination, so Team Fukushima decided to focus its efforts on reviving the economy. What happened next was nothing short of miraculous, as reported in the Japan Times in 2015.
The project distributed more than 12,000 bags containing 5 grams of imported sunflower seeds to schools, businesses, groups and individuals.
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 